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Nadine Dorries

January 07, 2023

Nadine Vanessa Dorries (née Bargery, 21 May 1957) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005.

The Right Honourable
Nadine Dorries
MP
Official portrait, 2021
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
In office
15 September 2021 – 6 September 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byOliver Dowden
Succeeded byMichelle Donelan
Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health[a]
In office
27 July 2019 – 15 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byJackie Doyle-Price
Succeeded byGillian Keegan[b]
Member of Parliament
for Mid Bedfordshire
Assumed office
5 May 2005
Preceded byJonathan Sayeed
Majority24,664 (38.1%)
Personal details
Born
Nadine Vanessa Bargery

(1957-05-21) 21 May 1957 (age 65)
Liverpool, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Paul Dorries
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(m. 1984; div. 2007)​
Children3
OccupationPolitician, author

Born in Liverpool to a working-class family, Dorries was raised in the city's Anfield district and the nearby towns of Halewood and Runcorn. She began work as a trainee nurse in Warrington and subsequently became a medical representative. During her early career, she spent a year in Zambia as the head of a community school. After returning to England, she founded Company Kids Ltd, which provided child day-care services for working parents. She sold the company in 1998. She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the Conservative safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire.

As a backbencher, Dorries introduced several unsuccessful private member's bills, including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortions in the UK and changes to the rules regarding counselling for the women involved, and the advocacy of sexual abstinence for girls in sex education. An opponent of John Bercow, she attempted to have him removed as Speaker of the House of Commons. She also clashed with David Cameron and George Osborne, describing them as "two arrogant posh boys". In 2012, she lost the Conservative whip after she took part in the reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! without informing the chief whip. It was returned in 2013 and she was re-admitted to the parliamentary party.

In July 2019, Boris Johnson appointed Dorries as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health. In May 2020, she was promoted to Minister of State. In Johnson's cabinet reshuffle in September 2021, he promoted her to Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Despite being made an offer to stay on, she resigned from her role as Secretary of State ahead of the formation of the Truss ministry, after Liz Truss took over from Johnson on 6 September 2022.[1]

Early life

Dorries was born Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool on 21 May 1957.[2] Her father, a Catholic of Irish descent, was a bus driver who became a lift operator and suffered from Raynaud's disease.[3] Her mother was an Anglican, and Dorries was raised as such.[4] She was brought up in the Anfield district of Liverpool, where she attended Rose Heath Primary School.[5] She then attended Halewood Grange Comprehensive School in Halewood[6] before moving with her family to Runcorn.[5] She grew up on a council estate and entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital.[7] According to an interview with The Times in 2014, Dorries' parents divorced during her adolescence. While training to be a nurse at 21, she shared a flat with her father. He died at the age of 42.[3]

Early career

From 1978 to 1981, Dorries was a nurse in Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report.[8] Her CV when she was a parliamentary candidate in 2001 stated Liverpool and London as places where she worked as a nurse.[7] She left the Liverpool area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries.

In 1982, Dorries became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year, before spending a year in Zambia (1983–84)[7] as the head of a community school, where her husband ran a copper mine.[9] In 1987 she founded Company Kids Ltd,[10] which provided child day-care services for working parents. The company was sold in 1998 to BUPA;[10] Dorries was subsequently a director of the health provider during the following year.[7]

As Nadine Bargery, she was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) for Hazel Grove, near Manchester in spring 2000. Her candidacy split the constituency party, and she was briefly deselected in August[11] before being imposed by Conservative Central Office. Standing for the seat at the 2001 general election, she was unsuccessful in her attempt to succeed the Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew Stunell, who retained the seat with a majority of 8,435 votes.[12] Dorries worked for three years[13] as a special adviser to Oliver Letwin, when Shadow Chancellor, to sort out his relations with the media amongst other things.[6]

Parliamentary career (2005–present)

 
Dorries in 2021

Dorries won the Conservative candidacy for the safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire in 2005 on the retirement through ill health after a series of scandals of Jonathan Sayeed.[14] In 2009, she gave this account of her selection:

Three weeks before the 2005 general election I, a council estate Scouser, was selected as the Conservative candidate to represent a southern rural constituency. Because the vacancy occurred so quickly and so close to D-day, the party provided my association with a shortlist of seventeen candidates, of which about five were women. Following a long day of interviews in hot sunny rooms, the list was whittled down to a shortlist of three ... I was informed that I had been selected outright on the first ballot ... That pride, that sense of achievement, the knowledge that I was selected on the basis of my performance and merit above all other candidates on that day is what enables me to hold my head up high in this place.[15]

Dorries' account of her own selection appears to contradict a news report which The Times ran at the time, reporting that Conservative Campaign Headquarters placed a majority of women on the shortlist and pressed for the selection of a female candidate:

Mrs Dorries, who has three teenage children, easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend. Party officials were thrilled that the seat has gone to a woman. Previously, only two women had been selected in the 17 safe seats where sitting MPs have retired. Senior party figures had made clear to local dignitaries that they would like the seat to go to a woman and presented the constituency with a shortlist of seven women and five men to underline the point.[16]

Dorries was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election with a majority of 11,355, and made her maiden speech on 25 May 2005.[14]

Dorries initially supported David Davis to become Conservative leader in 2005,[17] later withdrawing her endorsement.[18] David Cameron, the successful candidate, though "represent[s] everything that through my life . . . [I have] been suspicious of."[19] In May 2007, she criticised Cameron for ignoring the recommendations of the Conservative public policy working group in favour of grammar schools.[20] However, she did defend the selection of Liz Truss in 2009, whose Conservative candidature was called into question after an extra-marital affair was revealed.[21]

Dorries served as a member of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee, although by November 2008 she had attended only 2% of sessions.[22] The committee then reformed as the Science and Technology Select Committee; she did not attend a single session.[23] In 2010, she was elected to the Health Select Committee.[24]

In May 2008, Dorries featured in the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary "In God's Name". The programme examined the growing influence of Christian evangelical movements in the UK and highlighted the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship's involvement in lobbying the British Government on issues such as abortion, gay rights and the enforcing of laws relating to blasphemy.[25] The programme included footage of an LCF representative meeting with Dorries to influence policy on matters where they had a common agenda.[26][25]

In February 2010 Dorries took part in the Channel 4 documentary series Tower Block of Commons, in which MPs stay with welfare claimants.[27]

Dorries was re-elected in the 2010 general election with an increased majority and a swing of 2.3% from the Liberal Democrats.[28]

In 2013, Dorries' daughter was reportedly among the highest-earning family members employed by MPs with a salary of £40,000–45,000 as an office manager, even though her daughter lived 96 miles away from the office. Subsequently, Dorries' sister was taken on as "senior secretary" with a salary of £30,000–35,000.[29] In reply to an enquiry by Ben Glaze, deputy political editor of the Daily Mirror, about the employment of her daughter, Dorries tweeted: "Be seen within a mile of my daughters and I will nail your balls to the floor… using your own front teeth. Do you get that?"[30]

In October 2013, Dorries described a fellow Conservative MP, Kris Hopkins, as "one of parliament's slimiest, nastiest MPs" on her Twitter account, and criticised Prime Minister Cameron's decision to promote Hopkins to a junior ministerial post within the Department for Communities and Local Government as "a really awful decision".[31]

On 29 May 2015, the independent candidate in Mid Bedfordshire, Tim Ireland, lodged an appeal against the result accusing Dorries of breaches of Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 by making false statements about his character.[32][33] The development first emerged in early-June after the three-week petition for such an action had expired.[34] The petition was rejected by the High Court of Justice because it was served at Dorries' constituency office and not her home address.[35]

Damian McBride email affair

In April 2009, Dorries stated that she had commenced legal action following the leaked publication of emails sent by Damian McBride, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's head of strategy and planning, which suggested spreading a rumour that Dorries had a one-night stand with a fellow MP, in an email to Derek Draper, a Labour-supporting blogger.[8][36][37] McBride resigned and Dorries denounced the accusation as libellous: "[t]he allegations regarding myself are 100 per cent untrue",[38] and demanded an apology[8] intent on exposing the Number 10 "cesspit".[39]

Brown subsequently said he was "sorry" and that he took "full responsibility for what happened".[40] Dorries threatened libel proceedings against McBride, Draper and Downing Street but did not carry out that threat. McBride paid Dorries an undisclosed sum, estimated at £1,000 plus £2,500 towards her costs.[41]

Expenses claims

In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph, as part of its exposure of MPs' expenses claims, questioned whether the property in Dorries' constituency, on which she claimed £24,222 additional costs allowance (for "secondary" housing costs), had been in fact her main or only home from 2007 onwards.[42] The newspaper also queried hotel bills, including one for 'Mr N Dorries': these had been disallowed by the Fees Office and Dorries said they were submitted by mistake. On 22 May 2009, she spoke on BBC Radio 4 and drew parallels between the McCarthy 'Witch-Hunts' and the press's 'drip-drip' revelation of MP's expenses, eliciting Cameron's public criticism.[43] She said everyone was fearing a 'suicide', and colleagues were constantly checking up on each other.[44] Later in the day her blog was taken down. It transpired that Withers, lawyers acting for the Barclay Brothers, the owners of the Daily Telegraph, had required the removal of the blog, on threat of libel action against the service provider.[45]

In January 2010, it was reported that Dorries was still being investigated by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, regarding her claim for second home expenses.[46] There was some debate as to the location of her main home.[47] It was also reported that Dorries had claimed £20,000 in office expenses for work undertaken by a media relations and public affairs company.[46]

On 9 May 2010, two days after being returned at the general election for Mid Bedfordshire, The Sunday Times reported that Dorries was facing the first complaint about an MP's expenses claim of the new parliament. The newspaper reported that she had claimed around £10,000 for an annual report in 2007 on her performance as an MP, but that her former Commons researcher had never seen the report or worked on it.[48] Dorries insisted that she had indeed published the report, placing a photograph of it on her blog.[49] She subsequently told the Biggleswade Advertiser that the report was never printed and a credit note issued with refund on 13 September 2008.[50]

On 13 January 2011, it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses. Three days later, The Sunday Times reported that police had since handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration.[51] In February 2013, it was reported that Dorries was being investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority over her expenses, although no specific details were given at this time.[52]

On 27 June 2013, Dorries announced she would no longer claim her personal expenses as an MP, but would draw on her salary for such costs. She argued that she would be in a better position to campaign for the abolition of the present expenses arrangements by doing so.[53] Dorries herself stood for election as a deputy speaker after one of the three posts became vacant. In the Commons vote during October 2013, she gained the support of 13 MPs, and was the first of the six candidates to be eliminated in the voting process.[54]

Blog

A complaint from the Liberal Conspiracy website, regarding Dorries' use of the House of Commons' Portcullis emblem on her blog, had been upheld in March 2008, on the basis that Dorries "gave the impression it had some kind of parliamentary endorsement or authority".[55]

On 21 October 2010, the MP's standards watchdog criticised Dorries for maintaining a blog which would "mislead constituents" as to how much actual time she was spending in her constituency. Dorries announced: "my blog is 70% fiction and 30% fact! It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire. I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another."[56] Referring to her main home being in Gloucestershire,[57] she said: "I have always been aware that should my personal domestic arrangements become the knowledge of my political opponents, they would be able to exaggerate that to good effect."[56]

She gave an explanation of the statement to her local newspaper, in which she said that her whereabouts on her blog had been disguised, on police advice, because of unwanted attention. She also said that she made the statement in order to protect her staff and family.[58]

On 27 October 2010, Dorries partially retracted her 70% fiction claim, posting a blog entry which stated that "It also only takes any individual with a smattering of intelligence to see that everything on the blog is accurate, because it is largely a record of real time events. It was only ever the perception of where I was on any particular day which was disguised."[59]

The conservative journalist Peter Oborne suggested, in his Daily Telegraph blog a fortnight later, that Cameron should have "ordered Mrs Dorries to apologise personally to her constituents, and stripped her of the party whip there and then".[60]

In 2012, she was voted best MP on Twitter by the politics.co.uk website.[61]

Visit to Equatorial Guinea with other MPs

In August 2011, Dorries led the first delegation of Members of Parliament to Equatorial Guinea.[62] It is a small African country, but the third-biggest oil producer on the continent, ruled since 1979 by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. It has one of the worst human rights records on the continent.[63] She met the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, Ignacio Milam Tang. She has been quoted as saying to him: "We are here to dispel some of the myths about Equatorial Guinea and also with humility to offer you help to avoid the mistakes we have made."[62] According to the official website of Equatorial Guinea, Dorries was one of nine MPs on the trip.[64]

Reality TV and temporary suspension

 
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Early in November 2012, it was announced that Dorries had agreed to appear in I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.[65] Other Conservatives objected to her decision and her constituents were "overwhelmingly negative" on local radio.[66][67] Neither the Conservative chief whip, Sir George Young, nor the chairman of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association were informed of her absence from Parliament.[65][68] The Conservative Party suspended Dorries from the party whip on 6 November, after her confirmation that she was planning to be absent from Parliament.[69] John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, received a complaint about her behaviour.[70]

The series began on 11 November 2012, but on 21 November, Dorries became the first contestant to be voted off the show.[71][72] On 27 November Dorries met Sir George Young, who asked her to rebuild her relationship with the party. She then sat as an independent MP, but continued to deny the whip had been withdrawn, stating it had merely been suspended.[73]

On 8 May 2013, Dorries regained the Conservative whip without any conditions having been applied.[74] George Osborne reportedly objected to her regaining the parliamentary whip,[75][76] while commentators speculated that, should she not be readmitted, Dorries might join UKIP,[77][78][79] which had made gains from the Conservatives in the previous week's local elections.[78][80] Peter Oborne observed at this point that Dorries had still not declared the amount she was paid for her appearance on I'm a Celebrity... in the register of members interests, last published on 22 April, despite her promise to do so.[81]

Shortly after regaining the whip, Dorries floated the idea of joint Conservative-UKIP candidates at the next general election in 2015, with herself as such a candidate.[82] "This is not party policy and it's not going to happen", a Conservative Party spokesman told the Press Association.[83][84]

Following the publication of a report by the Standards Committee[85] on 11 November 2013, Dorries apologised in the House of Commons to her fellow MPs for two errors of judgement.[86] Her confidentiality agreement with ITV over her fee for appearing on I'm A Celebrity... had led to her refusing to disclose the information to Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards. In so doing, she had broken the MP's code of conduct.[87] The all-party standards committee said that she should never have agreed to such a clause in her contract. In addition, Dorries had falsely claimed that payment for eight pieces of work in the media did not need to be declared as they were made to Averbrook, her company, rather than to herself directly.[86] Andy McSmith, writing in The Independent at the beginning of December 2013, said that Dorries had finally disclosed her income (amounting to £20,228 in total) from appearing on I'm a Celebrity... in the register of members' interests.[88]

Brexit

In the June 2016 EU referendum, Dorries supported the Leave campaign and was critical of Cameron, who backed Remain. Dorries called for Cameron to resign during the campaign in May 2016, and submitted a letter of no confidence to Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee.[89]

Buzzfeed reported that in October 2017 Dorries had become confused about her party's position on Brexit after talking with a politics teacher about a key element of her party's position, Britain's proposed exit from the European Union Customs Union. The EU Customs Union is an agreement between EU members not to impose tariffs (i.e. import taxes) on goods passing across their mutual borders. From a semi-private discussion that Buzzfeed made public, it was suggested that Dorries believed the UK could leave the EU but stay within the Customs Union whilst at the same time negotiating free trade deals with other countries. Later in December 2017 she tweeted: "If we stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union, we haven't left."[90]

In November 2018, Dorries, who was strongly in favour of Brexit, said of the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the UK Government and the EU27: "This is a very sad place to be, but unfortunately, the future of the country and of our relationship with Europe is at stake. This deal gives us no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner".[91]

Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health (2019–2021)

When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, Dorries was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Social Care.[92] She was promoted in May 2020 to the ministerial rank of Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health.[93]

On 10 March 2020, Dorries became the first MP to be diagnosed with COVID-19. It is not known exactly when she contracted the disease, but it was reported that she had attended Parliament and visited 10 Downing Street before being required to self-isolate.[94][95]

On 14 May 2020, Dorries was criticised after she retweeted a doctored video from a far-right Twitter account which falsely claimed that Labour leader Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gangs while he served as Director of Public Prosecutions.[96]

In November 2020, Dorries attracted media criticism after rejecting an offer of cross-party talks to discuss a mental health support package for frontline NHS and care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.[97][98] In March 2021, she defended the government's 1% NHS pay-offer on the grounds that it would protect the financial support of those on furlough, stating that the "unprecedented" pressure on the UK's finances was behind the pay offer.[99]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (2021–2022)

On 15 September 2021, Dorries was promoted as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport following Oliver Dowden's appointment as Conservative Party Co-chairman.[100] She is a critic of what she believes to be elitism in the BBC[101] and wants to push for "BBC reform".[102]

Dorries was criticised in the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee by John Nicolson due to her previous tweets towards LBC journalist James O'Brien.[103]

In February 2022, amidst a controversy over a joke about Romani genocide, made by Jimmy Carr on a Netflix special, Dorries said that the government would bring in legislation to "hold to account" streaming companies for offensive content. She said there was no disconnect between this view and her previous opinions that "left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy".[104]

During the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, Dorries was reported as considering herself as a candidate,[105] but ultimately didn't stand and instead endorsed Liz Truss.[106]

In July 2022, Dorries personally granted Grade II-listed status to a plaque of Cecil Rhodes which she believed is of "special historic interest".[107] This decision attracted controversy as Rhodes has been labelled the "Architect of Apartheid"[108] because he passed laws in Cape Colony which expropriated land from black Africans and effectively banned them from political participation.[107]

Return to the backbenches 2022–present

On 5 September 2022, in anticipation of the appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, Dorries tendered her resignation as Culture Secretary (effective 6 September) and returned to the backbenches. Truss had asked Dorries to stay on as Secretary of State in her new government, but Dorries instead decided to step down to concentrate on writing books.[1]

Author

It became public knowledge in September 2013 that Dorries had signed a three-book deal for a six-figure advance;[109][110] her first book was published the following April.[111]

Her first novel, The Four Streets, which draws on her Liverpool Catholic background,[3] became a No.1 best-selling e-book with 100,000 copies sold in the format by July 2014, although print sales in hardback and paperback were significantly lower with, respectively, 2,735 and 637 sales by then.[112] Dorries' work of fiction gained mostly negative reviews.[113]

Sarah Ditum in the New Statesman complained that some of the sentences "read like clippings from Wikipedia"[114] while Christopher Howse, writing for The Daily Telegraph, described The Four Streets as "the worst novel I've read in 10 years".[115] "You should read the next one. It's much better", Dorries told Ann Treneman of The Times.[3]

By 2022, Dorries had published 16 books and announced a series of six more with publisher Head of Zeus.[116]

Political views

Dorries, described as "a right-wing, working-class Conservative",[117] is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group.[118]

Abortion time limits and counselling

Dorries says she witnessed "botched" abortions on two occasions,[9][119] an experience that influenced her campaign to lower the point during a pregnancy at which an abortion can be performed.[120]

On 31 October 2006, Dorries introduced a Private Member's Bill in the House of Commons, which would have reduced the time limit for abortion in Great Britain from 24 to 21 weeks; introduced a ten-day 'cooling-off' period for women wishing to have an abortion, during which time the woman would be required to undergo counselling; and accelerate access to abortion at the end of the cooling-off period.[121][122] Dorries said she had received death threats from activists and was given police protection.[122] Parliament voted by 187 to 108 to reject the bill.[123]

In May 2008, Dorries tabled an amendment to the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill seeking to reduce the upper limit for abortions from the current 24 weeks of pregnancy to 20 weeks. Reportedly written by Andrea Williams,[124] then of The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship,[125] Dorries has denied that her campaigning on the abortion issue receives funding from Christian fundamentalist groups, although Dorries's website for the "20 Reasons for 20 Weeks" campaign in 2008 was registered by Christian Concern For Our Nation (CCFON), another organisation with which Williams is involved; one of the pressure group's interns set up the website without charge to Dorries.[126] According to Guardian journalist Kira Cochrane, it was the greatest challenge to women's abortion rights in nearly 20 years.[127] Andrea Williams (now director of Christian Concern and Christian Legal Centre) was a team member of the campaign.[128] In the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, "In God's Name", Dorries was asked how closely she worked with Williams and Dorries replied, ""Closely? We've been stuck to the hip. Very closely."[129] In reference to her campaign, Dorries also said:

What goes on in here would have no structure whatsover, no sense of achievement if it wasn't for people like Andrea on the outside. You know, the Lawyers Christian Fellowhsip, the Medical Christian Fellowship on this particular issue are absolutely vital because they give us the information[130]

Dorries' amendment was defeated by 332 votes to 190, with a separate 22-week limit opposed by 304 votes to 233. A majority of MPs continued to support the 24-week limit.[131] She said of her tactics on this issue in 2007: "If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles ... My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit ... it's every baby's right to have a life."[132]

Dorries proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 which would have blocked abortion services such as BPAS and Marie Stopes International from providing counselling services. She argued that these organisations had a vested financial interest in encouraging abortions,[133] but according to Zoe Williams "independent" counselling services could be "faith-based groups" intent on discouraging women from having an abortion.[134] Cameron's government at first supported the proposal, but later changed its mind,[135] reportedly because then-Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was opposed to the change.[136]

Dorries' criticism of Cameron's policy shift was supported by some commentators such as Cristina Odone,[137] who shares Dorries concerns.[138] Clegg's apparent opposition was, for Dorries, a means of "blackmailing our Prime Minister",[139] and a question regarding Liberal Democrats' influence was the source of Cameron's description of Dorries as "extremely frustrated" at Prime Minister's questions on 7 September.[140] Cameron was criticised by feminists[141][142] among others for the comment, and subsequently apologised.[143]

The issue of abortion counselling was debated in the Commons immediately following this incident. The motion was originally seconded by Labour MP Frank Field, but he withdrew his support after Health Minister Anne Milton intervened to suggest the Government would support the spirit of Dorries' amendment.[144] The amendment was lost by 368 votes to 118, a majority of 250.[145] Despite this, Dorries claimed a victory because of Milton's comments.[144]

Abstinence advocacy for girls in sex education

On 4 May 2011, Dorries proposed a Bill to require that sex education in schools should include content promoting abstinence to girls aged 13–16, which was presented as teaching them "how to say no".[146] While sex education already mentions the option of abstinence, the bill would have required active promotion of abstinence to girls, with no such requirement in the education provided to boys. Owing to Dorries' claims about practices used in teaching about sex, Sarah Ditum in The Guardian accused Dorries of making Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) "sound like a terrifying exercise in depravity".[147]

The Bill drew criticism from healthcare and sex education professionals, questioning claims made during the Bill's reading.[148] Labour MP Chris Bryant described the Bill as being "the daftest piece of legislation I have seen".[149]

The Sexual Abstinence Bill was set for second reading on 20 January 2012 (Bill 185),[150] after she was granted leave to introduce the Bill on a vote of 67 to 61 on 4 May 2011.[151] The Bill, placed eighth on the order paper, was withdrawn shortly before its second reading.[152]

Same-sex marriage

Dorries opposed the government's successful legislation to introduce same-sex marriage. In May 2012, on the Conservative Home website she wrote: "Gay marriage is a policy which has been pursued by the metro elite gay activists and needs to be put into the same bin [as reform of the House of Lords]".[153][154] In an interview with Mehdi Hasan in October 2012, Dorries said she favoured gay marriage, but only after Britain has left the European Convention on Human Rights.[155] In an exchange with Iain Dale around the same time, she speculated that the issue could cost her party four million votes at the next general election.[156]

In February 2013, at the time of the Bill's second reading in the House of Commons, she argued that the Bill avoided the issue of consummation and thus contradicted the Marriages Act 1973, and therefore did not make gay marriage equal to heterosexual marriage.[157] She also argued that there was no provision for adultery, or faithlessness, as it might apply to gay couples because the term applies to heterosexual couples only.[158][159]

Burka ban

In August 2018, Boris Johnson was criticised for a column that he had written in the Daily Telegraph. As part of an article discussing the introduction of a burka ban in Denmark, Johnson said that Muslim women who wore burkas "look like letter boxes" and the garment gave them the appearance of "bank robbers", although the point of the article was to condemn governments who tell "a free-born adult woman what she may or may not wear, in a public place, when she is simply minding her own business". Dorries, however, said that Johnson "did not go far enough", saying the burka should have no place in Britain and it was "shameful that countries like France and Denmark are way ahead of us on this".[160] On 7 August 2018, Dorries tweeted "No woman in a liberal, progressive society should be forced to cover up her beauty or her bruises."[161]

Speaker John Bercow

Prior to John Bercow's election as Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009, Dorries accused him of opportunism and disloyalty to the Conservative Party. She described his election as "a two-fingered salute to the British people from Labour MPs, and to the Conservative Party".[162] After Bercow's wife, Sally, was approved as a Labour parliamentary candidate and gave an interview about her personal life, Dorries argued that the Bercows were damaging the historic respect accorded to the office of speaker.[163]

Dorries was reportedly part of a plot to oust Bercow from the speaker's chair in the run-up to the 2010 general election,[164] and, after the election, sent an email to all new MPs advocating his removal.[165]

Cameron, Clegg and Osborne

On 6 March 2012, Dorries criticised Cameron and Nick Clegg of the coalition government over their taxation policies. Referring to the proposed cuts in child benefit, she told the Financial Times "The problem is that policy is being run by two public schoolboys who don't know what it's like to go to the supermarket and have to put things back on the shelves because they can't afford it for their children's lunchboxes. What's worse, they don't care, either".[166] She again criticised Cameron, and also George Osborne, in similar terms on 23 April, calling them "two arrogant posh boys who don't know the price of milk – who show no remorse, no contrition and no passion to want to understand the lives of others".[167][168]

Osborne said on The Andrew Marr Show on 6 May 2012: "Nadine Dorries, for the last seven years, I don't think has agreed with anything either myself, David Cameron, or indeed most Conservatives in the leadership of the party have done."[169] In the summer of 2012, Dorries criticised Osborne again for sending a badly briefed junior Treasury minister, Chloe Smith, to deputise for him on Newsnight in order to defend a government u-turn on fuel duty.[170]

All-women shortlists

In a debate on Woman's Hour, broadcast on 22 August 2001, Dorries (as Nadine Bargery) had advocated all-women shortlists if the behaviour of Conservative selection committees did not change.[171] In 2009 though, Dorries was highly critical of Cameron's proposal to consider using all-women shortlists, arguing against a move which would create "two classes of MPs". She wrote that "Sometimes I feel sorry for some of the Labour women who were selected via all-women shortlists. Everyone knows who they are. They are constantly derided."[15]

High heels at work

In late 2009, Dorries campaigned against what she called "a proposal to ban the wearing of high heels in the office"[172] which was to be debated at the 2009 Trades Union Congress (TUC). The motion, submitted to the TUC by the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists, pointed out that "around two million days a year are lost through sickness as a result of lower limb disorders" and that "many employers in the retail sector force women workers to wear high heels as part of their dress code". It did not call for a ban on high heels at work, but rather called on employers to consider the health impact of their dress codes and encourage the wearing of healthy, comfortable shoes.[173]

Benefit claimants

In October 2010, Dorries suggested that benefit claimants who made more than 35,000 postings on Twitter should be reported to the Department for Work and Pensions. On being told by the Bedfordshire on Sunday newspaper that one of her constituents was out of work because of ill health and had posted more than 37,000 tweets, Dorries told the newspaper that her constituent's tweeting gave housebound disabled people a bad name.[174]

Personal life

Dorries married mining engineer Paul Dorries in 1984. They had three daughters before separating in 2007 and subsequently divorcing; he suffered from multiple sclerosis and she said they had reached "entirely different stages in [their] lives".[175]

A Christian, she has said in an interview for a Salvation Army newspaper: "I am not an MP for any reason other than because God wants me to be. There is nothing I did that got me here; it is what God did. There is nothing amazing or special about me, I am just a conduit for God to use."[132]

Dorries is a keen supporter of Liverpool F.C.,[176] but has said that her great-grandfather George Bargery was one of the founders of rival team Everton F.C. and was the team's first ever goalkeeper.[5][9]

Dorries suffers from dyslexia.[177] On 23 April 2022, after accidentally saying "downstream" instead of download and tennis "pitch" instead of tennis court in a TikTok video, she said it was sometimes "difficult" to say words correctly and said she "found it tough seeing commentators and media outlets mock me for something that is beyond my control."[178][179]

Honours

Dorries was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 20 September 2021 at Balmoral Castle.[180] This gave her the honorific prefix "The Right Honourable" for life.[181]

Awards

In 2008, Dorries won The Spectator's 'Readers' Representative Award'.[182]

Books

  • The Four Streets Saga series
    • The Four Streets (volume 1), Head of Zeus, April 2014, ISBN 978-1-78185-757-1
    • Hide Her Name (volume 2), Head of Zeus, December 2014, ISBN 978-1-78185-760-1
    • The Ballymara Road (volume 3), Head of Zeus, June 2015, ISBN 978-1-78185-763-2
    • Coming Home to the Four Streets (volume 4), Head of Zeus, 2021, ISBN 978-1-83893-905-2
  • Run to Him (short story), Head of Zeus, November 2014, ISBN 978-1-78497-110-6
  • A Girl Called Eilinora (short story), Head of Zeus, September 2015, ISBN 978-1-78497-473-2
  • Ruby Flynn, Head of Zeus, November 2015, ISBN 978-1-78408-217-8
  • The Lovely Lane series
  • The Tarabeg series
  • The Bellfont Legacy series (6 volumes announced)

Notes

  1. ^ Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (2019–2020).
  2. ^ As Minister of State for Care and Mental Health.

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nadine, dorries, nadine, vanessa, dorries, née, bargery, 1957, british, politician, served, secretary, state, digital, culture, media, sport, from, 2021, 2022, under, prime, minister, boris, johnson, member, conservative, party, been, member, parliament, bedfo. Nadine Vanessa Dorries nee Bargery 21 May 1957 is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson A member of the Conservative Party she has been the Member of Parliament MP for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005 The Right HonourableNadine DorriesMPOfficial portrait 2021Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and SportIn office 15 September 2021 6 September 2022Prime MinisterBoris JohnsonPreceded byOliver DowdenSucceeded byMichelle DonelanMinister of State for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health a In office 27 July 2019 15 September 2021Prime MinisterBoris JohnsonPreceded byJackie Doyle PriceSucceeded byGillian Keegan b Member of Parliament for Mid BedfordshireIncumbentAssumed office 5 May 2005Preceded byJonathan SayeedMajority24 664 38 1 Personal detailsBornNadine Vanessa Bargery 1957 05 21 21 May 1957 age 65 Liverpool EnglandPolitical partyConservativeSpousePaul Dorries m 1984 div 2007 wbr Children3OccupationPolitician authorBorn in Liverpool to a working class family Dorries was raised in the city s Anfield district and the nearby towns of Halewood and Runcorn She began work as a trainee nurse in Warrington and subsequently became a medical representative During her early career she spent a year in Zambia as the head of a community school After returning to England she founded Company Kids Ltd which provided child day care services for working parents She sold the company in 1998 She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for the Conservative safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire As a backbencher Dorries introduced several unsuccessful private member s bills including attempts to reduce the time limit for abortions in the UK and changes to the rules regarding counselling for the women involved and the advocacy of sexual abstinence for girls in sex education An opponent of John Bercow she attempted to have him removed as Speaker of the House of Commons She also clashed with David Cameron and George Osborne describing them as two arrogant posh boys In 2012 she lost the Conservative whip after she took part in the reality TV programme I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here without informing the chief whip It was returned in 2013 and she was re admitted to the parliamentary party In July 2019 Boris Johnson appointed Dorries as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health In May 2020 she was promoted to Minister of State In Johnson s cabinet reshuffle in September 2021 he promoted her to Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport Despite being made an offer to stay on she resigned from her role as Secretary of State ahead of the formation of the Truss ministry after Liz Truss took over from Johnson on 6 September 2022 1 Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Parliamentary career 2005 present 3 1 Damian McBride email affair 3 2 Expenses claims 3 3 Blog 3 4 Visit to Equatorial Guinea with other MPs 3 5 Reality TV and temporary suspension 3 6 Brexit 3 7 Minister for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health 2019 2021 3 8 Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport 2021 2022 3 9 Return to the backbenches 2022 present 4 Author 5 Political views 5 1 Abortion time limits and counselling 5 2 Abstinence advocacy for girls in sex education 5 3 Same sex marriage 5 4 Burka ban 5 5 Speaker John Bercow 5 6 Cameron Clegg and Osborne 5 7 All women shortlists 5 8 High heels at work 5 9 Benefit claimants 6 Personal life 7 Honours 7 1 Awards 8 Books 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksEarly lifeDorries was born Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool on 21 May 1957 2 Her father a Catholic of Irish descent was a bus driver who became a lift operator and suffered from Raynaud s disease 3 Her mother was an Anglican and Dorries was raised as such 4 She was brought up in the Anfield district of Liverpool where she attended Rose Heath Primary School 5 She then attended Halewood Grange Comprehensive School in Halewood 6 before moving with her family to Runcorn 5 She grew up on a council estate and entered nursing in 1975 as a trainee at Warrington General Hospital 7 According to an interview with The Times in 2014 Dorries parents divorced during her adolescence While training to be a nurse at 21 she shared a flat with her father He died at the age of 42 3 Early careerFrom 1978 to 1981 Dorries was a nurse in Warrington and Liverpool according to a 2009 report 8 Her CV when she was a parliamentary candidate in 2001 stated Liverpool and London as places where she worked as a nurse 7 She left the Liverpool area after she married mining engineer Paul Dorries In 1982 Dorries became a medical representative to Ethicla Ltd for a year before spending a year in Zambia 1983 84 7 as the head of a community school where her husband ran a copper mine 9 In 1987 she founded Company Kids Ltd 10 which provided child day care services for working parents The company was sold in 1998 to BUPA 10 Dorries was subsequently a director of the health provider during the following year 7 As Nadine Bargery she was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate PPC for Hazel Grove near Manchester in spring 2000 Her candidacy split the constituency party and she was briefly deselected in August 11 before being imposed by Conservative Central Office Standing for the seat at the 2001 general election she was unsuccessful in her attempt to succeed the Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew Stunell who retained the seat with a majority of 8 435 votes 12 Dorries worked for three years 13 as a special adviser to Oliver Letwin when Shadow Chancellor to sort out his relations with the media amongst other things 6 Parliamentary career 2005 present Dorries in 2021 Dorries won the Conservative candidacy for the safe seat of Mid Bedfordshire in 2005 on the retirement through ill health after a series of scandals of Jonathan Sayeed 14 In 2009 she gave this account of her selection Three weeks before the 2005 general election I a council estate Scouser was selected as the Conservative candidate to represent a southern rural constituency Because the vacancy occurred so quickly and so close to D day the party provided my association with a shortlist of seventeen candidates of which about five were women Following a long day of interviews in hot sunny rooms the list was whittled down to a shortlist of three I was informed that I had been selected outright on the first ballot That pride that sense of achievement the knowledge that I was selected on the basis of my performance and merit above all other candidates on that day is what enables me to hold my head up high in this place 15 Dorries account of her own selection appears to contradict a news report which The Times ran at the time reporting that Conservative Campaign Headquarters placed a majority of women on the shortlist and pressed for the selection of a female candidate Mrs Dorries who has three teenage children easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend Party officials were thrilled that the seat has gone to a woman Previously only two women had been selected in the 17 safe seats where sitting MPs have retired Senior party figures had made clear to local dignitaries that they would like the seat to go to a woman and presented the constituency with a shortlist of seven women and five men to underline the point 16 Dorries was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election with a majority of 11 355 and made her maiden speech on 25 May 2005 14 Dorries initially supported David Davis to become Conservative leader in 2005 17 later withdrawing her endorsement 18 David Cameron the successful candidate though represent s everything that through my life I have been suspicious of 19 In May 2007 she criticised Cameron for ignoring the recommendations of the Conservative public policy working group in favour of grammar schools 20 However she did defend the selection of Liz Truss in 2009 whose Conservative candidature was called into question after an extra marital affair was revealed 21 Dorries served as a member of the Innovation Universities Science and Skills Committee although by November 2008 she had attended only 2 of sessions 22 The committee then reformed as the Science and Technology Select Committee she did not attend a single session 23 In 2010 she was elected to the Health Select Committee 24 In May 2008 Dorries featured in the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary In God s Name The programme examined the growing influence of Christian evangelical movements in the UK and highlighted the Lawyers Christian Fellowship s involvement in lobbying the British Government on issues such as abortion gay rights and the enforcing of laws relating to blasphemy 25 The programme included footage of an LCF representative meeting with Dorries to influence policy on matters where they had a common agenda 26 25 In February 2010 Dorries took part in the Channel 4 documentary series Tower Block of Commons in which MPs stay with welfare claimants 27 Dorries was re elected in the 2010 general election with an increased majority and a swing of 2 3 from the Liberal Democrats 28 In 2013 Dorries daughter was reportedly among the highest earning family members employed by MPs with a salary of 40 000 45 000 as an office manager even though her daughter lived 96 miles away from the office Subsequently Dorries sister was taken on as senior secretary with a salary of 30 000 35 000 29 In reply to an enquiry by Ben Glaze deputy political editor of the Daily Mirror about the employment of her daughter Dorries tweeted Be seen within a mile of my daughters and I will nail your balls to the floor using your own front teeth Do you get that 30 In October 2013 Dorries described a fellow Conservative MP Kris Hopkins as one of parliament s slimiest nastiest MPs on her Twitter account and criticised Prime Minister Cameron s decision to promote Hopkins to a junior ministerial post within the Department for Communities and Local Government as a really awful decision 31 On 29 May 2015 the independent candidate in Mid Bedfordshire Tim Ireland lodged an appeal against the result accusing Dorries of breaches of Section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 by making false statements about his character 32 33 The development first emerged in early June after the three week petition for such an action had expired 34 The petition was rejected by the High Court of Justice because it was served at Dorries constituency office and not her home address 35 Damian McBride email affair In April 2009 Dorries stated that she had commenced legal action following the leaked publication of emails sent by Damian McBride Prime Minister Gordon Brown s head of strategy and planning which suggested spreading a rumour that Dorries had a one night stand with a fellow MP in an email to Derek Draper a Labour supporting blogger 8 36 37 McBride resigned and Dorries denounced the accusation as libellous t he allegations regarding myself are 100 per cent untrue 38 and demanded an apology 8 intent on exposing the Number 10 cesspit 39 Brown subsequently said he was sorry and that he took full responsibility for what happened 40 Dorries threatened libel proceedings against McBride Draper and Downing Street but did not carry out that threat McBride paid Dorries an undisclosed sum estimated at 1 000 plus 2 500 towards her costs 41 Expenses claims In May 2009 The Daily Telegraph as part of its exposure of MPs expenses claims questioned whether the property in Dorries constituency on which she claimed 24 222 additional costs allowance for secondary housing costs had been in fact her main or only home from 2007 onwards 42 The newspaper also queried hotel bills including one for Mr N Dorries these had been disallowed by the Fees Office and Dorries said they were submitted by mistake On 22 May 2009 she spoke on BBC Radio 4 and drew parallels between the McCarthy Witch Hunts and the press s drip drip revelation of MP s expenses eliciting Cameron s public criticism 43 She said everyone was fearing a suicide and colleagues were constantly checking up on each other 44 Later in the day her blog was taken down It transpired that Withers lawyers acting for the Barclay Brothers the owners of the Daily Telegraph had required the removal of the blog on threat of libel action against the service provider 45 In January 2010 it was reported that Dorries was still being investigated by John Lyon the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding her claim for second home expenses 46 There was some debate as to the location of her main home 47 It was also reported that Dorries had claimed 20 000 in office expenses for work undertaken by a media relations and public affairs company 46 On 9 May 2010 two days after being returned at the general election for Mid Bedfordshire The Sunday Times reported that Dorries was facing the first complaint about an MP s expenses claim of the new parliament The newspaper reported that she had claimed around 10 000 for an annual report in 2007 on her performance as an MP but that her former Commons researcher had never seen the report or worked on it 48 Dorries insisted that she had indeed published the report placing a photograph of it on her blog 49 She subsequently told the Biggleswade Advertiser that the report was never printed and a credit note issued with refund on 13 September 2008 50 On 13 January 2011 it was reported by the Daily Mirror that police were investigating Dorries concerning her expenses Three days later The Sunday Times reported that police had since handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration 51 In February 2013 it was reported that Dorries was being investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority over her expenses although no specific details were given at this time 52 On 27 June 2013 Dorries announced she would no longer claim her personal expenses as an MP but would draw on her salary for such costs She argued that she would be in a better position to campaign for the abolition of the present expenses arrangements by doing so 53 Dorries herself stood for election as a deputy speaker after one of the three posts became vacant In the Commons vote during October 2013 she gained the support of 13 MPs and was the first of the six candidates to be eliminated in the voting process 54 Blog A complaint from the Liberal Conspiracy website regarding Dorries use of the House of Commons Portcullis emblem on her blog had been upheld in March 2008 on the basis that Dorries gave the impression it had some kind of parliamentary endorsement or authority 55 On 21 October 2010 the MP s standards watchdog criticised Dorries for maintaining a blog which would mislead constituents as to how much actual time she was spending in her constituency Dorries announced my blog is 70 fiction and 30 fact It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name event fact with another 56 Referring to her main home being in Gloucestershire 57 she said I have always been aware that should my personal domestic arrangements become the knowledge of my political opponents they would be able to exaggerate that to good effect 56 She gave an explanation of the statement to her local newspaper in which she said that her whereabouts on her blog had been disguised on police advice because of unwanted attention She also said that she made the statement in order to protect her staff and family 58 On 27 October 2010 Dorries partially retracted her 70 fiction claim posting a blog entry which stated that It also only takes any individual with a smattering of intelligence to see that everything on the blog is accurate because it is largely a record of real time events It was only ever the perception of where I was on any particular day which was disguised 59 The conservative journalist Peter Oborne suggested in his Daily Telegraph blog a fortnight later that Cameron should have ordered Mrs Dorries to apologise personally to her constituents and stripped her of the party whip there and then 60 In 2012 she was voted best MP on Twitter by the politics co uk website 61 Visit to Equatorial Guinea with other MPs In August 2011 Dorries led the first delegation of Members of Parliament to Equatorial Guinea 62 It is a small African country but the third biggest oil producer on the continent ruled since 1979 by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema It has one of the worst human rights records on the continent 63 She met the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea Ignacio Milam Tang She has been quoted as saying to him We are here to dispel some of the myths about Equatorial Guinea and also with humility to offer you help to avoid the mistakes we have made 62 According to the official website of Equatorial Guinea Dorries was one of nine MPs on the trip 64 Reality TV and temporary suspension Wikinews has related news UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to investigate Nadine Dorries reality TV appearance Early in November 2012 it was announced that Dorries had agreed to appear in I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 65 Other Conservatives objected to her decision and her constituents were overwhelmingly negative on local radio 66 67 Neither the Conservative chief whip Sir George Young nor the chairman of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association were informed of her absence from Parliament 65 68 The Conservative Party suspended Dorries from the party whip on 6 November after her confirmation that she was planning to be absent from Parliament 69 John Lyon the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards received a complaint about her behaviour 70 The series began on 11 November 2012 but on 21 November Dorries became the first contestant to be voted off the show 71 72 On 27 November Dorries met Sir George Young who asked her to rebuild her relationship with the party She then sat as an independent MP but continued to deny the whip had been withdrawn stating it had merely been suspended 73 On 8 May 2013 Dorries regained the Conservative whip without any conditions having been applied 74 George Osborne reportedly objected to her regaining the parliamentary whip 75 76 while commentators speculated that should she not be readmitted Dorries might join UKIP 77 78 79 which had made gains from the Conservatives in the previous week s local elections 78 80 Peter Oborne observed at this point that Dorries had still not declared the amount she was paid for her appearance on I m a Celebrity in the register of members interests last published on 22 April despite her promise to do so 81 Shortly after regaining the whip Dorries floated the idea of joint Conservative UKIP candidates at the next general election in 2015 with herself as such a candidate 82 This is not party policy and it s not going to happen a Conservative Party spokesman told the Press Association 83 84 Following the publication of a report by the Standards Committee 85 on 11 November 2013 Dorries apologised in the House of Commons to her fellow MPs for two errors of judgement 86 Her confidentiality agreement with ITV over her fee for appearing on I m A Celebrity had led to her refusing to disclose the information to Kathryn Hudson the parliamentary commissioner for standards In so doing she had broken the MP s code of conduct 87 The all party standards committee said that she should never have agreed to such a clause in her contract In addition Dorries had falsely claimed that payment for eight pieces of work in the media did not need to be declared as they were made to Averbrook her company rather than to herself directly 86 Andy McSmith writing in The Independent at the beginning of December 2013 said that Dorries had finally disclosed her income amounting to 20 228 in total from appearing on I m a Celebrity in the register of members interests 88 Brexit In the June 2016 EU referendum Dorries supported the Leave campaign and was critical of Cameron who backed Remain Dorries called for Cameron to resign during the campaign in May 2016 and submitted a letter of no confidence to Graham Brady chairman of the 1922 Committee 89 Buzzfeed reported that in October 2017 Dorries had become confused about her party s position on Brexit after talking with a politics teacher about a key element of her party s position Britain s proposed exit from the European Union Customs Union The EU Customs Union is an agreement between EU members not to impose tariffs i e import taxes on goods passing across their mutual borders From a semi private discussion that Buzzfeed made public it was suggested that Dorries believed the UK could leave the EU but stay within the Customs Union whilst at the same time negotiating free trade deals with other countries Later in December 2017 she tweeted If we stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union we haven t left 90 In November 2018 Dorries who was strongly in favour of Brexit said of the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the UK Government and the EU27 This is a very sad place to be but unfortunately the future of the country and of our relationship with Europe is at stake This deal gives us no voice no votes no MEPs no commissioner 91 Minister for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health 2019 2021 When Boris Johnson became prime minister in July 2019 Dorries was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health at the Department of Health and Social Care 92 She was promoted in May 2020 to the ministerial rank of Minister of State for Patient Safety Suicide Prevention and Mental Health 93 On 10 March 2020 Dorries became the first MP to be diagnosed with COVID 19 It is not known exactly when she contracted the disease but it was reported that she had attended Parliament and visited 10 Downing Street before being required to self isolate 94 95 On 14 May 2020 Dorries was criticised after she retweeted a doctored video from a far right Twitter account which falsely claimed that Labour leader Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gangs while he served as Director of Public Prosecutions 96 In November 2020 Dorries attracted media criticism after rejecting an offer of cross party talks to discuss a mental health support package for frontline NHS and care staff during the COVID 19 pandemic 97 98 In March 2021 she defended the government s 1 NHS pay offer on the grounds that it would protect the financial support of those on furlough stating that the unprecedented pressure on the UK s finances was behind the pay offer 99 Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport 2021 2022 On 15 September 2021 Dorries was promoted as Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport following Oliver Dowden s appointment as Conservative Party Co chairman 100 She is a critic of what she believes to be elitism in the BBC 101 and wants to push for BBC reform 102 Dorries was criticised in the Digital Culture Media and Sport Select Committee by John Nicolson due to her previous tweets towards LBC journalist James O Brien 103 In February 2022 amidst a controversy over a joke about Romani genocide made by Jimmy Carr on a Netflix special Dorries said that the government would bring in legislation to hold to account streaming companies for offensive content She said there was no disconnect between this view and her previous opinions that left wing snowflakes are killing comedy 104 During the July September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election Dorries was reported as considering herself as a candidate 105 but ultimately didn t stand and instead endorsed Liz Truss 106 In July 2022 Dorries personally granted Grade II listed status to a plaque of Cecil Rhodes which she believed is of special historic interest 107 This decision attracted controversy as Rhodes has been labelled the Architect of Apartheid 108 because he passed laws in Cape Colony which expropriated land from black Africans and effectively banned them from political participation 107 Return to the backbenches 2022 present On 5 September 2022 in anticipation of the appointment of Liz Truss as Prime Minister Dorries tendered her resignation as Culture Secretary effective 6 September and returned to the backbenches Truss had asked Dorries to stay on as Secretary of State in her new government but Dorries instead decided to step down to concentrate on writing books 1 AuthorIt became public knowledge in September 2013 that Dorries had signed a three book deal for a six figure advance 109 110 her first book was published the following April 111 Her first novel The Four Streets which draws on her Liverpool Catholic background 3 became a No 1 best selling e book with 100 000 copies sold in the format by July 2014 although print sales in hardback and paperback were significantly lower with respectively 2 735 and 637 sales by then 112 Dorries work of fiction gained mostly negative reviews 113 Sarah Ditum in the New Statesman complained that some of the sentences read like clippings from Wikipedia 114 while Christopher Howse writing for The Daily Telegraph described The Four Streets as the worst novel I ve read in 10 years 115 You should read the next one It s much better Dorries told Ann Treneman of The Times 3 By 2022 Dorries had published 16 books and announced a series of six more with publisher Head of Zeus 116 Political viewsDorries described as a right wing working class Conservative 117 is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group 118 Abortion time limits and counselling Dorries says she witnessed botched abortions on two occasions 9 119 an experience that influenced her campaign to lower the point during a pregnancy at which an abortion can be performed 120 On 31 October 2006 Dorries introduced a Private Member s Bill in the House of Commons which would have reduced the time limit for abortion in Great Britain from 24 to 21 weeks introduced a ten day cooling off period for women wishing to have an abortion during which time the woman would be required to undergo counselling and accelerate access to abortion at the end of the cooling off period 121 122 Dorries said she had received death threats from activists and was given police protection 122 Parliament voted by 187 to 108 to reject the bill 123 In May 2008 Dorries tabled an amendment to the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill seeking to reduce the upper limit for abortions from the current 24 weeks of pregnancy to 20 weeks Reportedly written by Andrea Williams 124 then of The Lawyers Christian Fellowship 125 Dorries has denied that her campaigning on the abortion issue receives funding from Christian fundamentalist groups although Dorries s website for the 20 Reasons for 20 Weeks campaign in 2008 was registered by Christian Concern For Our Nation CCFON another organisation with which Williams is involved one of the pressure group s interns set up the website without charge to Dorries 126 According to Guardian journalist Kira Cochrane it was the greatest challenge to women s abortion rights in nearly 20 years 127 Andrea Williams now director of Christian Concern and Christian Legal Centre was a team member of the campaign 128 In the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary In God s Name Dorries was asked how closely she worked with Williams and Dorries replied Closely We ve been stuck to the hip Very closely 129 In reference to her campaign Dorries also said What goes on in here would have no structure whatsover no sense of achievement if it wasn t for people like Andrea on the outside You know the Lawyers Christian Fellowhsip the Medical Christian Fellowship on this particular issue are absolutely vital because they give us the information 130 Dorries amendment was defeated by 332 votes to 190 with a separate 22 week limit opposed by 304 votes to 233 A majority of MPs continued to support the 24 week limit 131 She said of her tactics on this issue in 2007 If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned the ethical discussions would go round in circles My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit it s every baby s right to have a life 132 Dorries proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 which would have blocked abortion services such as BPAS and Marie Stopes International from providing counselling services She argued that these organisations had a vested financial interest in encouraging abortions 133 but according to Zoe Williams independent counselling services could be faith based groups intent on discouraging women from having an abortion 134 Cameron s government at first supported the proposal but later changed its mind 135 reportedly because then Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was opposed to the change 136 Dorries criticism of Cameron s policy shift was supported by some commentators such as Cristina Odone 137 who shares Dorries concerns 138 Clegg s apparent opposition was for Dorries a means of blackmailing our Prime Minister 139 and a question regarding Liberal Democrats influence was the source of Cameron s description of Dorries as extremely frustrated at Prime Minister s questions on 7 September 140 Cameron was criticised by feminists 141 142 among others for the comment and subsequently apologised 143 The issue of abortion counselling was debated in the Commons immediately following this incident The motion was originally seconded by Labour MP Frank Field but he withdrew his support after Health Minister Anne Milton intervened to suggest the Government would support the spirit of Dorries amendment 144 The amendment was lost by 368 votes to 118 a majority of 250 145 Despite this Dorries claimed a victory because of Milton s comments 144 Abstinence advocacy for girls in sex education On 4 May 2011 Dorries proposed a Bill to require that sex education in schools should include content promoting abstinence to girls aged 13 16 which was presented as teaching them how to say no 146 While sex education already mentions the option of abstinence the bill would have required active promotion of abstinence to girls with no such requirement in the education provided to boys Owing to Dorries claims about practices used in teaching about sex Sarah Ditum in The Guardian accused Dorries of making Sex and Relationship Education SRE sound like a terrifying exercise in depravity 147 The Bill drew criticism from healthcare and sex education professionals questioning claims made during the Bill s reading 148 Labour MP Chris Bryant described the Bill as being the daftest piece of legislation I have seen 149 The Sexual Abstinence Bill was set for second reading on 20 January 2012 Bill 185 150 after she was granted leave to introduce the Bill on a vote of 67 to 61 on 4 May 2011 151 The Bill placed eighth on the order paper was withdrawn shortly before its second reading 152 Same sex marriage Dorries opposed the government s successful legislation to introduce same sex marriage In May 2012 on the Conservative Home website she wrote Gay marriage is a policy which has been pursued by the metro elite gay activists and needs to be put into the same bin as reform of the House of Lords 153 154 In an interview with Mehdi Hasan in October 2012 Dorries said she favoured gay marriage but only after Britain has left the European Convention on Human Rights 155 In an exchange with Iain Dale around the same time she speculated that the issue could cost her party four million votes at the next general election 156 In February 2013 at the time of the Bill s second reading in the House of Commons she argued that the Bill avoided the issue of consummation and thus contradicted the Marriages Act 1973 and therefore did not make gay marriage equal to heterosexual marriage 157 She also argued that there was no provision for adultery or faithlessness as it might apply to gay couples because the term applies to heterosexual couples only 158 159 Burka ban In August 2018 Boris Johnson was criticised for a column that he had written in the Daily Telegraph As part of an article discussing the introduction of a burka ban in Denmark Johnson said that Muslim women who wore burkas look like letter boxes and the garment gave them the appearance of bank robbers although the point of the article was to condemn governments who tell a free born adult woman what she may or may not wear in a public place when she is simply minding her own business Dorries however said that Johnson did not go far enough saying the burka should have no place in Britain and it was shameful that countries like France and Denmark are way ahead of us on this 160 On 7 August 2018 Dorries tweeted No woman in a liberal progressive society should be forced to cover up her beauty or her bruises 161 Speaker John Bercow Prior to John Bercow s election as Speaker of the House of Commons in June 2009 Dorries accused him of opportunism and disloyalty to the Conservative Party She described his election as a two fingered salute to the British people from Labour MPs and to the Conservative Party 162 After Bercow s wife Sally was approved as a Labour parliamentary candidate and gave an interview about her personal life Dorries argued that the Bercows were damaging the historic respect accorded to the office of speaker 163 Dorries was reportedly part of a plot to oust Bercow from the speaker s chair in the run up to the 2010 general election 164 and after the election sent an email to all new MPs advocating his removal 165 Cameron Clegg and Osborne On 6 March 2012 Dorries criticised Cameron and Nick Clegg of the coalition government over their taxation policies Referring to the proposed cuts in child benefit she told the Financial Times The problem is that policy is being run by two public schoolboys who don t know what it s like to go to the supermarket and have to put things back on the shelves because they can t afford it for their children s lunchboxes What s worse they don t care either 166 She again criticised Cameron and also George Osborne in similar terms on 23 April calling them two arrogant posh boys who don t know the price of milk who show no remorse no contrition and no passion to want to understand the lives of others 167 168 Osborne said on The Andrew Marr Show on 6 May 2012 Nadine Dorries for the last seven years I don t think has agreed with anything either myself David Cameron or indeed most Conservatives in the leadership of the party have done 169 In the summer of 2012 Dorries criticised Osborne again for sending a badly briefed junior Treasury minister Chloe Smith to deputise for him on Newsnight in order to defend a government u turn on fuel duty 170 All women shortlists In a debate on Woman s Hour broadcast on 22 August 2001 Dorries as Nadine Bargery had advocated all women shortlists if the behaviour of Conservative selection committees did not change 171 In 2009 though Dorries was highly critical of Cameron s proposal to consider using all women shortlists arguing against a move which would create two classes of MPs She wrote that Sometimes I feel sorry for some of the Labour women who were selected via all women shortlists Everyone knows who they are They are constantly derided 15 High heels at work In late 2009 Dorries campaigned against what she called a proposal to ban the wearing of high heels in the office 172 which was to be debated at the 2009 Trades Union Congress TUC The motion submitted to the TUC by the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists pointed out that around two million days a year are lost through sickness as a result of lower limb disorders and that many employers in the retail sector force women workers to wear high heels as part of their dress code It did not call for a ban on high heels at work but rather called on employers to consider the health impact of their dress codes and encourage the wearing of healthy comfortable shoes 173 Benefit claimants In October 2010 Dorries suggested that benefit claimants who made more than 35 000 postings on Twitter should be reported to the Department for Work and Pensions On being told by the Bedfordshire on Sunday newspaper that one of her constituents was out of work because of ill health and had posted more than 37 000 tweets Dorries told the newspaper that her constituent s tweeting gave housebound disabled people a bad name 174 Personal lifeDorries married mining engineer Paul Dorries in 1984 They had three daughters before separating in 2007 and subsequently divorcing he suffered from multiple sclerosis and she said they had reached entirely different stages in their lives 175 A Christian she has said in an interview for a Salvation Army newspaper I am not an MP for any reason other than because God wants me to be There is nothing I did that got me here it is what God did There is nothing amazing or special about me I am just a conduit for God to use 132 Dorries is a keen supporter of Liverpool F C 176 but has said that her great grandfather George Bargery was one of the founders of rival team Everton F C and was the team s first ever goalkeeper 5 9 Dorries suffers from dyslexia 177 On 23 April 2022 after accidentally saying downstream instead of download and tennis pitch instead of tennis court in a TikTok video she said it was sometimes difficult to say words correctly and said she found it tough seeing commentators and media outlets mock me for something that is beyond my control 178 179 HonoursDorries was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council on 20 September 2021 at Balmoral Castle 180 This gave her the honorific prefix The Right Honourable for life 181 Awards In 2008 Dorries won The Spectator s Readers Representative Award 182 BooksThe Four Streets Saga series The Four Streets volume 1 Head of Zeus April 2014 ISBN 978 1 78185 757 1 Hide Her Name volume 2 Head of Zeus December 2014 ISBN 978 1 78185 760 1 The Ballymara Road volume 3 Head of Zeus June 2015 ISBN 978 1 78185 763 2 Coming Home to the Four Streets volume 4 Head of Zeus 2021 ISBN 978 1 83893 905 2 Run to Him short story Head of Zeus November 2014 ISBN 978 1 78497 110 6 A Girl Called Eilinora short story Head of Zeus September 2015 ISBN 978 1 78497 473 2 Ruby Flynn Head of Zeus November 2015 ISBN 978 1 78408 217 8 The Lovely Lane series The Angels of Lovely Lane volume 1 Head of Zeus June 2016 ISBN 978 1 78408 221 5 The Children of Lovely Lane volume 2 Head of Zeus December 2016 ISBN 978 1 78497 504 3 The Mothers of Lovely Lane volume 3 Head of Zeus June 2017 ISBN 978 1 78497 508 1 Christmas Angels volume 4 Head of Zeus November 2017 ISBN 978 1 78497 515 9 An Angel Sings short story Head of Zeus November 2018 ISBN 978 1 78954 198 4 Snow Angels volume 5 Head of Zeus October 2019 ISBN 978 1 78954 480 0 The Tarabeg series Shadows in Heaven volume 1 Head of Zeus July 2018 ISBN 978 1 78669 748 6 Mary Kate volume 2 Head of Zeus January 2019 ISBN 978 1 78669 752 3 The Velvet Ribbon volume 3 Head of Zeus January 2020 ISBN 978 1 78669 756 1 The Bellfont Legacy series 6 volumes announced A Wicked Woman volume 1 Head of Zeus announced March 2024 ISBN 978 1 83893 908 3Notes Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 2019 2020 As Minister of State for Care and Mental Health References a b Priti Patel and Nadine Dorries to step down ahead of new PM BBC News 5 September 2022 Archived from the original on 6 September 2022 Retrieved 6 September 2022 Gimson Andrew 11 November 2012 Nadine Dorries brave Tory rebel or a self serving stunt woman The Observer ISSN 0261 3077 Archived from the original on 12 March 2016 Retrieved 6 May 2019 a b c d Treneman Ann 5 April 2014 The 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